From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 21:32:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA18408 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.cdrom.com (pooh.cdrom.com [204.216.28.222]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA18391 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 21:32:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by pooh.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22693 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA02900; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:04:16 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:04:15 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: mark thompson cc: hackers@freebsd.com Subject: Re: crontab nit? In-Reply-To: <19970406135347.2749.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 6 Apr 1997, mark thompson wrote: > /etc/daily didn't run last night. Looking at the log, it appears that > when daylight savings time started, the hour of 2-3 was skipped. Oddly, > 2 is when daily is scheduled to run. > > On my system, i just changed that to 1am. It seems that this might be a > good idea in general in the US. > > i18n question... around the world, when DST starts, what hour gets skipped? > When it ends, what hour gets repeated? Every country I've even been in or had dealings with changes at 2am on Saturday night/Sunday Morning, but in the back of my mind I think there is a middle eastern country which doesn't. Danny